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Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants For Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated

November 18, 2022

Judgment Based On Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated: Kahil Johnson (“K. Johnson”) filed a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit involving the cancer care provided to Thomas Johnson (“T. Johnson”) while he was incarcerated in Maryland, arguing that the three-month del[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

October 14, 2022

Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation: Intervening Cause Section 441 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts defines an intervening force as a force “which actively operates in producing harm to another after the actor’s negligent act or omission has been committed.” Importantly, [...]

$13.3M Maryland Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 4, 2022

$13.3M Birth Injury Verdict: A Maryland medical malpractice birth injury jury in a conservative Maryland jurisdiction (Harford County, Maryland) returned its verdict in favor of a now 18-year-old who suffered serious bleeding in his brain during his delivery in 2004. The Maryland medical malpractice[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable For Actions Of Trauma Surgeon

July 31, 2022

Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable : Under the doctrine of apparent agency, an entity may be found vicariously liable to a third party for the negligence of its apparent agent if (1) the entity represents, or acquiesces in the appearance, that an individual is its agent; (2) the third party rel[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Holds Terminal Patient Cannot Sue For Medical Malpractice For Shortened Life Expectancy

July 18, 2022

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Holds Terminal Patient Cannot Sue For Medical Malpractice For Shortened Life Expectancy: A woman diagnosed with Stage IIIC breast cancer in her left breast was treated with a left mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, after which a series of follow[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff Failed To Show Compensable Damages In Delayed Diagnosis Of Pancreatic Cancer Medical Malpractice Case

July 6, 2022

Court Affirms Plaintiff Failed to Show Compensable Damages in Cancer Case: On May 26, 2015, Mr. Dean, age 54, presented at the Garrett County Memorial Hospital’s emergency room complaining of abdominal pain, back pain, and nausea. The emergency room physicians performed several diagnostic procedur[...]

Maryland Medical Practice Paid $286,631 To Resolve Claims That It Billed For Medical Services Not Provided

June 5, 2022

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced on March 25, 2022 that a Salisbury, Maryland medical practice, Peninsula Internal Medicine, L.L.C., and the estate of its former owner have paid the United States $286,631.33 to settle allegations that Peninsula Interna[...]

Maryland Physician Indicted For Alleged Health Care Fraud Involving COVID-19

April 21, 2022

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced on April 20, 2022 that 47-year-old Ron Elfenbein, M.D. of Arnold, Maryland has been indicted for three counts of healthcare fraud for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and other insurers for patients wh[...]

Maryland Pharmacists Seek Golden Ticket

February 23, 2022

Proposed legislation in Maryland seeks to add “pharmacists” to the definition of “health care provider” so that their financial interests are protected at the expense of the most seriously harmed victims of their negligence, and so that they also enjoy the significant procedu[...]

Maryland Board Of Physicians Annual Report For Fiscal Year 2020

February 10, 2022

The Maryland Board of Physicians (Board) reported for Fiscal Year 2020 that 864 new complaints were investigated for physicians, allied health practitioners, and unlicensed individuals. The three most common grounds for complaints were: ● Disciplinary Ground §14-404(a)(3)(ii) – guilty of un[...]

Maryland Pain Management Doctor Who Sexually Abused Patients Has His Request For Reinstatement Denied

January 24, 2022

The Maryland Board of Physicians (“Board”), in its Order dated December 27, 2021, denied the application for reinstatement filed by a Maryland pain management doctor, finding that he was not fit to return to the practice of medicine and further ordering that the doctor not apply for rein[...]

Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation In Maryland Legal Malpractice Case Arising From Medical Malpractice Case

December 8, 2021

In Maryland, to prevail on a legal malpractice claim, a former client must prove: (1) the attorney’s employment, (2) the attorney’s neglect of a reasonable duty, and (3) loss to the client proximately caused by that neglect of duty. Trial-Within-A-Trial Doctrine In a lawyer-negligence or fiducia[...]

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